Men and women alike play the game, though generally the sexes separate and play by themselves.

Quiet chanting or singing often accompanies the game.

All alike smoke the cigarette.
[Illustration: Dat-so-la-le, the artistic Washoe basket maker] [Illustration: One of Dat-so-la-le's masterpieces, 'Our Hunters' design] [Illustration: 'Our Ancestral Hunters' design] [Illustration: Washoe baskets made by Dat-so-la-le, 'Happy Homes' design] Of their religious beliefs little can be said.

The fact is their simple nature-worship and the superstitions connected with it have been abolished, practically, by their association with the whites, and we have given them nothing as substitutes.

As Mrs.W.W.Price says in a letter to me: In several talks with Susan and Jackson, after the death of Susan's sister, I endeavored to find out some of their religious beliefs.